"People who don't play video games would be forgiven if they turned on an Xbox 360 and didn't realize it was a device used to primarily play games. The first screen you see on the Xbox 360 Dashboard is often a mixture of ads for all sorts of goods and services, and many times games are in the minority of ad slots. The latest redesign increased the ad space that can be sold to advertisers, and that in turn increased this problem. Let's be clear, it is a problem. Game discovery is terrible in the current design of Xbox Live, and the usability of a system that used to be about games is suffering in order for Microsoft to make money on ads." Written a year ago by Ben Kuchera for Penny Arcade. In light of increased advertising efforts in Windows 8.1, this has become relevant once more. In a nutshell, do not count on Microsoft being able to strike a proper balance (thanks, Soulbender!).

Most of what I use my Xbox 360 for is Netflix. I am sick and tired of paying for Xbox Gold just so I can use a service I already pay for. Soon, my 360 will be disconnected and used for dvds and games offline. I just haven't decided what Netflix box to replace it with. I keep hoping Netflix will get their HTML5 video app out the door so I can just watch on Linux.

There will be no XBox One in my future. Just wait until we find out there is a back door to let the government or hackers view content on the kinect without anyone knowing.

Most of what I use my Xbox 360 for is Netflix. I am sick and tired of paying for Xbox Gold just so I can use a service I already pay for. Soon, my 360 will be disconnected and used for dvds and games offline. I just haven't decided what Netflix box to replace it with. I keep hoping Netflix will get their HTML5 video app out the door so I can just watch on Linux.

While the PS3 is also rough around a lot of corners the thing I like about it is that Netflix doesn't require PSN Plus -- you can just install the app and be on your merry way. Also, since the PS3 can play both DVDs and BluRay-movies it's a rather handy box for movie/TV-show consumption.

As for Netflix on Linux? That'd require Firefox or some other F/OSS browser to implement the support for DRM-modules; the Internet Explorer that ships with Windows 8.1 supports this and Netflix therefore uses HTML5 on it. Alas, what I've seen it seems none of the F/OSS-folks are willing to implement such support even if W3C were to accept the proposal and therefore such support seems unlikely :/